I use a cable modem with a wireless card, and most things work fairly quickly for me. But when I try to look at all the microbadges when considering buying one, I find that I have to hit the "Expand All", and then collaspe the list down category by category. These days the list is so populated that a lot of the badges take a long time to appear. I am wondering if the system can be adapted so that we only expand the particular category we are interested in. It may be already built that way, but it doesn't work for me or for my hubby on his PC.

I was also wondering if the format of the list could be changed so that there are two, or even three columns within each category, so there would not be so much scrolling when shopping for the badges.

I totally agree. The list takes quite a while to load for me, to the point that whenever I want to take a look at it, I'll load up the page, do something else and then return to the computer after a while.

Surely this can't be that hard to fix, for the sake of all the IE users (of which I believe most BGG users are) out there...?

I think switching web browsers at this point would have ramifications that I can't even begin to fathom...maybe when I get that new fancy laptop with Vista on it. In the meantime....any programmers out there with time on their hands who feel a need to play with microbadges?